Tablets of Bahá’u’lláh Revealed after the Kitab-i-Aqdas eBook

Great God! Although His signs have encompassed
the world and His proofs and testimonies are shining
forth and manifest as the light, yet the ignorant
appear heedless, nay rather, rebellious. Would
that they had been content with opposition. But
at all times they are plotting to cut down the sacred
Lote-Tree. Since the dawn of this Revelation the
embodiments of selfishness have, by resorting to cruelty
and oppression, striven to extinguish the Light of
divine manifestation. But God, having stayed their
hands, revealed this Light through His sovereign authority
and protected it through the power of His might until
earth and heaven were illumined by its radiance and
brightness. Praise be unto Him under all conditions.

Glory be unto Thee, O Lord of the world and Desire
of the nations, O Thou Who hast become manifest in
the Greatest Name whereby the pearls of wisdom and
utterance have appeared from the shells of the great
sea of Thy knowledge, and the heavens of divine revelation
have been adorned with the light of the appearance
of the Sun of Thy countenance.

I beg of Thee, by that Word through which Thy proof
was perfected among Thy creatures and Thy testimony
was fulfilled among Thy servants to strengthen Thy
people in that whereby the face of the Cause will radiate
in Thy dominion, the standards of Thy power will be
planted among Thy servants, and the banners of Thy
guidance will be raised throughout Thy dominions.

O my Lord! Thou beholdest them clinging to the
rope of Thy grace and holding fast unto the hem of
the mantle of Thy beneficence. Ordain for them
that which may draw them nearer unto Thee, and withhold
them from all else save Thee. I beg of Thee,
O Thou King of existence and Protector of the seen
and the unseen, to make whosoever ariseth to serve
Thy Cause as a sea moving by Thy desire, as one ablaze
with the fire of Thy Sacred Tree, shining from the
horizon of the heaven of Thy Will. Verily Thou
art the mighty One Whom neither the power of all the
world nor the strength of nations can weaken.
There is no God but Thee, the One, the Incomparable,
the Protector, the Self-Subsistent.

O thou who hast quaffed the wine of Mine utterance
from the chalice of My knowledge! These sublime
words were heard today from the rustling of the divine
Lote-Tree which the Lord of Names hath, with the hand
of celestial power, planted in the All-Highest Paradise:

The first Taraz and the first effulgence which hath
dawned from the horizon of the Mother Book is that
man should know his own self and recognize that which
leadeth unto loftiness or lowliness, glory or abasement,
wealth or poverty. Having attained the stage of
fulfilment and reached his maturity, man standeth
in need of wealth, and such wealth as he acquireth
through crafts or professions is commendable and praiseworthy
in the estimation of men of wisdom, and especially
in the eyes of servants who dedicate themselves to
the education of the world and to the edification